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The 19th Amendment is ratified granting women the right to vote.
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Albert Fall leased properties to private oilmen in return for bribes.
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John Scopes taught evolution in his class, which was against the law in TN, and was promptly arrested
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The first talking motion picture premieres bringing an end to silent films.
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The american stock market crashes on-setting the great depression.
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The social security act set up pension for retirees,provided pay to the poor, and people with disabilities.
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America declares war after the Japanese attack on pearl harbor.
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American soldiers aided South America when North Koreans poured across the 38th parallel.
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President Kennedy sent a CIA led force to attack Cuba. The mission failed and all but 300 of 1400 invaders were killed.
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shore.
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Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, TX
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The Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination in public facilities, such as parks, and in public accommodations, such as hotels and restaurants. It also prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, or gender.
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Medicare Was created as a health insurance program for the elderly and Medicaid was for those on welfare
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Astronaut Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon, fulfilling President John Kennedy’s pledge to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
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College students were protesting the attack on Cambodia when eight guardsmen opened fire on a crowd, killing four students and wounding nine.
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The US Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, affirms the legality of a woman's right to have an abortion under the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.
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A group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The hostages were held for 444 days
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Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, leading to the Persian Gulf War
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An Islamic terrorist group hijacked four planes to carry out suicide attacks in the U.S. Two planes crashed into the twin towers and one imto the pentagon
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Hurricane Katrina was the largest and 3rd strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the US.
